Talk about great places to reach on a very wet morning! Not! The footpath to the Burren and Giant's Leap is a hilly walk up boggy slopes, over stream, past flowering pinguiculars (at the right time of year) and past stream outlets in the limestone cliff faces.
I imagine the views from here must be pretty good on a good day, but the rain was cutting the view down to a couple of hundred meters. The tomb itself is very ruined, but very recognisable as a court tomb, because all that's left is half of the court. Behind the fine entrance jambs and low door stone is a round enclosure, with low stone walls. Most unusual.
The tomb faces west (sort of), directly towards the portal tomb on top of the main hill. The reamining court stones are wonderfully pointed affairs - all jagged and decrease in size as they get further from the entrance. The remaining half would indicate that the court was shallow, just 2m or so, and quite wide, maybe 8m across.
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_A Random Selection of Nearby Monuments
 Ballyglass (Co. Mayo) |  Carrowkilleen (Co. Mayo) |  Mullaghboy (Co. Cavan) |
 Glencolmcille - station 1 (Co. Donegal) |  Ally (Co. Tyrone) |  Ballyalton (Co. Down) |
